Joseph jauch



J. J AUG H.- LAMP BURNER.

(No Model.)

No; 508,572. Patented Nov. 14, 1893.

Ni'rno STATES JOSEPH JAUCH, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THEBRADLEY &

ATENT Erica HUBBARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF'SAME PLACE.

LAMP-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 508,572, dated November14, 1893. Application filed anuarylti, 1893 Serial No.1458,616- (Nomodel.)

A To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH J AUOI-I, of Meriden, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements inLamp-Burners; and-I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawingsand the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of, this specification, andrepresent, lI1-- Figure l, a view in elevation of a burner constructedin accordance with my invention and applied to a lamp-fount; Fig. 2, asimilar view looking at the end of the key, and with a portion of theskirt of the burner broken away; Fig. 3, a detached view of the burnerwith its gallery lifted and supported by the operating-hooks; Fig. 4, aview of the burner in transverse section on the line 0c 0c of Fig. 3;Fig. 5, a broken view of the burner in vertical section on the line yyof Fig. 3, with the gallery depressed; Fig. 6, a detached reverse planview of the burner.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of lamp-burnersinwhich the chimney-holder or gallery is arranged to be raised and loweredby a key, for convenience in applying a lighted taper to the wick, theobject being to produce. a simple, and convenient burner of the typedescribed.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a lamp-burner having adetached gallery, a skirt, and an outer wick-tube, two verticallyslotted guides depending from the said gallery, a key having hearing atopposite points in the said skirt, passing through the said guides, andbowed to clear the said tube, and lifting-hooks attached to the saidguides, and engaging with the bowed portion of the ke l S ly inventionfurther consists in certain details of construction and combinations ofparts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a burner having a detachedgallery A, of ordinary construction, a perforated skirt B, and an outerwick tube 0, which is connected at its lower end with the lower end ofthe skirt, the same being thereto turned inward to form 7B, in theordinary manner.

a horizontal flange B. The gallery or chimney-holder A, is designed tonormally rest upon the upper end of the perforated skirt Two verticalguides D D, secured to the lower edge of the gallery, at opposite pointsthereon, and constructed at their upper ends with long vertical slots DD, are extended downward through guide-ways b 1), formed in the skirt B,whereby the said guides, and hence the gallery from which they depend,are kept in position while being raised and lowered. A keyF, preferablyconsisting of a long piece of wire bent into the required form, hasbearing in the upper edge of the skirt at opposite points therein, theupper edge of the skirt being thereto notched, as at b b, to receive thekey, and the said notches being covered overwith little plates G Gwhereby the key, is retainedin place. If desired, however, the

said key may be struck out of sheet-metal or bent into form from a stripof that material, or-it might be cast. The said key passes through theslots D, of the said guides, and is outwardly bowed, as at F, to clearthe outer wick tube C, its said bowed portion being constructed withbends or jogs F F for engagement by the outer ends of operatinghooks HH, the lower ends'of which are bent outward at a right angle, as at H H,and rigidly secured to the inner faces of the guides D D, at pointsthereon just below the ends of the slots D D'. The extreme outer end ofeach book has an inclined retaining face h, which whenthe gallery islifted, engages with the adjacent bend or jog F of the bowed portion Fof the key, as shown by Fig. 3 of the drawings, and sustains the galleryin its elevated position, so that the fingers may be removed from thekey. A very slight movement of the key, however, serves to throw thebends or jogs of the same below the saidjinclines of the hooks, so thatthe gallery may settle back to its normal position.

For raising the gallery of the burner for applying a lighted taper tothe wick, the key is turned in the right direction for raising its bowedportion, the jogs or bends whereof then lift against the operating-hookswhich are thus raised, and hence the gallery. Then when the said bendspass under the retainingfaces of the hooks, the bowed portion of the keyis looked, as it were, in an elevated position in which it supports thegallery. To lower the gallery the key is turned reversely until thebends of its bowed portion pass the said faces of the hooks, after whichthe gallery drops back by gravity into its depressed position. Bypreference the last movement of the gallery is controlled by keeping thefingers on the key and resisting the movement thereof, so that thegallery will go back into its place gradually.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention 1 may make some changesin the construction herein shown and described. I would therefore haveit understood that I do not confine myself to the same in its exactform, but hold myself at liberty to make such changes and variationstherein as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A lamp-burner having a detached gallery, a skirt, and an outerWick-tube, two vertically slotted guides depending from the saidgallery, a key having bearing in the said skirt at opposite pointstherein, passing through the said guides, and bowed to clear the saidtube, and operating-hooks attached to the said guides and engaging withthe bowed portion of the key, substantially as described.

2. A lamp-burner having a detached gallery, a skirt, and an outerwick-tube, two vertically slotted guides depending from the saidgallery, a key having bearing in the said skirt at opposite pointstherein, passing through the said guides, and bowed to clear the saidtube; and operating-hooks secured at their lower ends to the inner facesof the said guides at points just below the slots thereof, substantiallyas described.

3. A lamp-burner having a detached gallery, a skirt, and an outerwick-tube, two vertically slotted guides depending from the saidgallery, a key having bearing in the said skirt, passing through thesaid guides, and bowed to clear the said tube, and operating-hooksattached to the said guides, and constructed at their ends with inclinedretaining faces to co-operate with the bowed portion of the key insustaining the gallery in its raised position, substantially asdescribed.

4. A lamp-burner having a detached gallery, a skirt and an outerwick-tube, two vertically slotted guides, depending from the saidgallery at opposite points therein, and passing at their lower endsthrough guide-ways formed to receive them in the said skirt, a keyhaving bearing in the said skirt at opposite points therein, passingthrough the said guides, and bowed to clear the said tube; andoperatinghooks attached to the said guides, and engaging with the bowedportion of the key, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH J AUOH. Witnesses:

F. E. WATRO US, A. B. SAVAGE.

